If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Auto refresh....

Here's something I found really useful. My ISP boots me after 45 minutes of idle time. However, it only checks for HTTP traffic. So, if I leave a download on ovenight and that download happens to be from an FTP site, I get booted after a while. So here's some source that I wrote to prevent that from happening. I just load the page in IE/Netscape (haven't tested it in Mozilla) and go to sleep. I hope someone else finds some use for it.

Indeed, really useful. Wouldn't imagine they would kick you based only on http traffic.. my isp doesn't kick me at all. Oh, I don't know if mozilla or netscape has this feature, but Opera allows you to refresh a page every n seconds/minutes. Quite handy

Found in a diary:
\".... and yes, since i am a l337 hax0r, i am also using vi to write this. ^[[D^[[B^ exit ^X^C quit :x :wq dang it :w:w:w :x ^C^C^Z^D\"

Tampa: I think there's no need.. check this
<frame name="main" src="http://cnet.com">
the page loads cnet.com into a frame every 900 seconds, so that it can still be stored locally. It's what it seems, at least.

Found in a diary:
\".... and yes, since i am a l337 hax0r, i am also using vi to write this. ^[[D^[[B^ exit ^X^C quit :x :wq dang it :w:w:w :x ^C^C^Z^D\"

They do, and I think that's to prevent indescriminate downloading. They don't want too much bandwidth used, but they don't want to set a mzimum bandwidth either. And this way, they take care of most of the users.

shouldn't you upload the page to a server online?
if it was on your HD then there wouldn't be any HTTP trafic, right?

Nope, the <frame name="main" src="http://cnet.com"> takes care of that. The site being loaded (cnet.com in the example) is after all being loaded from the cnet server and not from your hard disk. The only thing I was worried about initially is that the page would refresh from the cache, but that doesn't seem to be the case.